Monday 25 August 2014
Marine biologists from across the world have produced an atlas of sea life in the Antarctic Ocean from microbes to whales, finding thousands of new species in the process.
Among the discoveries were crabs that are able to live within the clouds of sulphur emitted by live underwater volcanoes and a new type of barnacle that has stems 50 times longer than its head.
They also found that climate change had potentially caused changes in the breeding patterns of penguins.
The project was the first of this magnitude since the publication of the Antactic Map Folio Series 45 years ago.
Dr Katrin Linse, an expert in Antarctic molluscs at the British Antartic Survey, told The Independent: “Since 1969 there has been no update but lots of science done in that period and lots of species discovered.
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